22 December 2014

We're in Nice today to visit the Christmas lights. This is my fabulous friend, Emmanuelle, jumping in front of a replica of what was once Nice's crystal casino - a pier, built over the sea and finished in 1891. The pier was closed in 1942 and stripped of its valuable metals, copper,
brass, bronze and electric wiring, to be used by the German army.

07 September 2014

You'll find this cow in the gardens of the Princess Grace Hospital in Monaco. She's called 'Elegante au Bains' and has been decorated by sculptor Anne Quemar. In 2005 there were dozens of cows all over Monaco. They'd been created by well-known artists and scuptors in aid of charity. This one was bought by the Baronne Brandstetter and donated to the hospital.

24 July 2014

Looking from the top deck of the new Monaco Yacht Club, we see the pool and on the car side of Port Hercule, a cruise ship. The yacht club is so like a cruise ship itself that sometimes it's difficult to remember it isn't!

05 July 2014

The new Monaco Yacht Club is finally open. Looks like a cruise liner, doesn't it? It had its grand opening on the 20th June with 3,000 guests including the Princely family of course.

It was designed by the studios of leading British architect, Lord Norman
Foster, in collaboration with Monaco-born architect, Alexandre Giraldi, and is
the new headquarters for the Monaco Yacht Club (YCM).

It was a grey day when I took this photo, but a few days ago, I went there for lunch and the sun shone! Next time we'll explore the building...

28 June 2014

Monte Carlo Daily Photo is undergoing a slight change. It will now be published less often, probably a couple of times a week, hence the change of name to Monte Carlo Weekly Photo. I need to organise my time better in order to work on my book about Gorbio. Hope my loyal and much appreciated Monte Carlo follows will understand.

16 June 2014

Benedicte Blanc-Fontenilleis a French-born artist exhibiting at the Art Monaco exhibition which was held in in April. I commented on how well it looked against a black background but Benedicte told me it looks even better against a white background as the falling figures catch the light. She writes:

"Life is nothing but motion. This movement is the fragility of the humans being.
That's the buried thing and the visible one, the folds that need to be unfold to access the knowledge, to achieve.
In
my work, the texture evokes this fragility by playing with transparency
and opacity. The colors I am using are inspired by the mineral, to
translate the rebirth, the revival, perpetual motion of the cosmos.
The
silhouettes of humans are appearing like a shadow caught in a snapshot
whose movement is developing in the eyes of the spectator."

15 June 2014

We're back at Art Monaco today and a photo of a beautiful girl, Chinwe, who was visiting the show with her friend, Jennifer. They came from London. Two lovely girls happy to pose for the photographers.